The echoes of languages dead and ancient can still be heard, be they Hebrew, Hittite, Latin or Ugaritic. Ola Wikander muses and looks at these relics of human thought and communication and their modern day remnants: the human species has enjoyed the privilige of writing for over 5000 years, which makes living in the present seem a bit short sighted.

Sunday, May 3, 2009

Let's let's!

One of the best manga names I have ever heard is Let's Bible, yet another example of the common "engrish" tendency to put "let's" in front of everything. The fact that the comic is about an angel and a fisherman in Croatia (whose greatest interests are fashion and sex) just makes it even better!

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Ola Wikander, author and translator from various ancient languages; did my doctoral thesis ( Death, Drought and the Sun in Ugarit and Ancient Israel) at the univerity of Lund. Have published a number of non-fiction works relating to ancient languages in my native Sweden, one of which (Dead Languages' Society) was shortlisted for the August prize, one of the country's most prestigious literary awards. Have also published translations from Ugaritic, Greek and Akkadian, as well as two novels.